Format:
1 online resource
,
illustrations (black and white).
ISBN:
9780197529164
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
Content:
A syncretistic & millenarian religious movement, the Yiguandao (Way of Pervading Unity) was one of the major redemptive societies of Republican China. It developed rapidly in the 1930s & the 1940s, attracting millions of members. Sébastien Billioud offers an in-depth anthropological & sociological study of the Yiguandao. Repressed and forbidden after 1949, the group is one of the most influential religious movements of the Chinese world & at the same time one of the least known & understood. This work delves into a Yiguandao community in Hong Kong that serves as a node of circulations between Taiwan, Macau, China & elsewhere. It explores the expansionary dynamics of a group that now now reestablishinges itself in China & elsewhere in Asia.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2020. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 23, 2020)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780197529133
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780197529133
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Billioud, Sébastien, 1969 - Reclaiming the wilderness New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, 2020 ISBN 9780197529133
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ethnology
Keywords:
China
;
Charisma
;
Yiguan Dao
;
Konfuzianismus
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780197529133.001.0001
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